Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Trivia of the Month (& Answer)...

Book Jacket for: American Heritage dictionary of American quotations
The month’s question asked who said “The Liberty of the press is essential to the security of the state”?  Joh Adams can be credited with that quote in the Massachusetts Constitution in 1780.

The question (& answer) were taken from p. 405 of the Dictionary of American Quotations selected and annotated by Margaret Miner and Hugh Rawson.  The book was published in 1997by Penguin.